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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza
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Smotrich’s Apocalyptic “Decisive Plan” for Gaza

Dan Steinbock

Bezazel Smotrich is one of political leaders of Israel’s Messianic far-right. But he is also a shrewd administrator executing a biblical “decisive plan” of ethnic […]

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

Israeli Forces’ Attack on Sanaa kills Journalists

09/19/2025 By Juan Cole

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

The “Defense” Department has always been about War

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Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Turkey mobilizes for war with Syria and Russia as Nearly 3 Dozen Turkish Troops Killed

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Al Jazeera reports that nearly three dozen Turkish soldiers in a barracks in Syria were killed Friday by an air […]

Juan Cole

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Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Iran: No Justice for Bloody Crackdown (HRW)

Unlawful Lethal Force, Families Threatened, Cover-Ups

Human Rights Watch

Democratic Socialism
How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

How Cold War US Corporations Smeared Democratic Socialism

By Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy | – Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic front-runner in the race for the presidential nomination. Yet even some left-leaning pundits […]

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Donald Trump
How Democracy Ends:  Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

How Democracy Ends: Not With a Bang But With a Whimper

By Karen J. Greenberg | – (Tomdispatch.com) – In this fast-paced century, rife with technological innovation, we’ve grown accustomed to the impermanence of things. Whatever […]

Karen J. Greenberg

Donald Trump
Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran's Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Anti-Science and Opportunistic: Trump and Iran’s Ayatollahs both Play down Coronavirus

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Christine Romans at CNN wonders if Trump’s news conference on Wednesday evening on the Covid-19 coronavirus was his “Mission Accomplished” […]

Juan Cole

Banking
Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys:  Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Bernie Sanders and the Poor Little Rich Boys: Why Billionaire Financiers are Bullying the Democratic Party

Southwest Harbor, Maine (Special to Informed Comment) – Quiet concerns about a possible Sanders victory became a loud and agitated freakout after the Senator’s resounding […]

John Buell

Epidemics
Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

Can Iran Afford its Syrian Intervention in face of Failing Economy, Coronavirus?

By Tony Walker | – Iran’s emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that country’s relationships with its neighbours at a time […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

On Hanging from the Blades of an Israeli Bulldozer: Al-Naem is Every Palestinian

( Middle East Monitor ) – How is one to apply rational political analysis to what is inherently irrational? What kind of political theory must […]

Middle East Monitor

Bernie Sanders
Sanders calls out "reactionary racist Netanyahu" while Bloomberg charges Mideast with "age-old hatreds"

Sanders calls out “reactionary racist Netanyahu” while Bloomberg charges Mideast with “age-old hatreds”

At Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in South Carolina on CBS, Major Garrett, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, asked Bernie Sanders a leading question. The […]

Juan Cole

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